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UNITED STATES v. MRS. GUE LIM (1900)

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UNITED STATES v. MRS. GUE LIM
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Decided: February 26, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. MRS. GUE LIM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: permanent residence
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 176 U.S. 459
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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